DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

It could also contribute to increases in ground-level ozone pollution — which is harmful to human health. While hydrogen on its own does not trap heat, it can interact with other substances in the atmosphere to prolong the lifetime of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. Like, it just made so much intuitive sense that I think it kind of went beyond the lobbyist politics of Sacramento.” “It’s crazy what we’re doing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Duane Levine gives a presentation to the company’s board of directors where he’s comparing what governments did with these chemicals called CFCs that were destroying the ozone layer, with what might happen to fossil fuels when governments start to focus on climate change. I didn’t even know until later he had done ozone hole denial.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Protecting at-risk populations.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

How can environmental justice best be advanced in the current political moment that is part of a greater historical transition to a non-white population majority by the mid-2040s? EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Protecting at-risk populations.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From Rio to Glasgow: The political recognition of our climate crisis increases On the 9th of May, 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) was adopted. The ongoing commitment towards UNFCCC – via COP – symbolizes how the political recognition of climate change has increased globally. C) within reach.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. And the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. Her two oldest children left the city to protect their health and are urging their mother, a cancer survivor, to do the same. Mark Felix.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 100

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Finally, an agency commission charged with deciding whether to declare the watersheds in distress tabled the measure despite hearing from scientists on the panel that phosphorus levels were not improving and public health required more action. EPA agreed to impose limits , the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says. Lake Erie, on the other hand? “And

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Adding sulfate aerosols to the stratosphere would degrade the ozone layer (thereby increasing global cancer rates) and increase acid rain. Local entities, national governments or state governments, can regulate soil health, more or less, on their own,” Keith explained. “So

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Over time, if something turns out to be terrible for society, it becomes the target of widespread popular and/or political wrath and it is severely curtailed or limited. Think: opioids, or ozone-depleting chemicals, or leaded-gasoline, or asbestos, or DDT.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In one interview, he went so far as to suggest that reducing ozone levels might result in worse public health outcomes. “I

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Defend Our Future

MAY 21, 2020

But in the midst of this unprecedented public health crisis, the Trump Administration is rolling back public health protections that keep us safe from air pollution. EPA, both by definition and by law, has a moral and legal obligation to protect all Americans from air pollution that contributes to climate change and damages our health.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 3, 2021

The news that Tesla has reached its goal of producing 500,000 electric vehicles is not only great for investors (such as me, even though I have a tiny, tiny stake), but also for those who don't even know anything about the company. It is good news for anyone and any animal that has a pair of lungs.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 15, 2020

Californians have now been sheltering in place since March 20. While social distancing is slowing the spread of COVID-19, it’s also significantly reducing air pollutant and greenhouse gas levels across the state.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Every month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change's causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and explores what's to come if we don't reduce emissions at a quicker pace.

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